The next steps for global climate action after the Paris Agreement
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October 2024 — 6:00PM TO 7:00PM
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26 July 2024
Chatham House and Online

Todd Stern and other experts discuss why the landmark agreement still matters and how the governments ramp up the fight against climate change.

Following decades of negotiations, the 2015 Paris Agreement on climate change demonstrated how governments could come together and address the need for climate action. Limiting global temperature increase to 1.5°C above pre-industrial levels governments have aimed to avoid this unwanted threshold ever since. However, heatwaves, wildfires and other forms of extreme weather are affecting every part of the world with increasing devastation. Is the political will to maintain the target fading? Is the global cooperation to combat climate change, exhibited in Paris, evaporating? Could years of effort to reach the agreement be threatened in an increasingly polarised world?

Todd Stern, the U.S. lead negotiator for the Paris Agreement and the author of Landing the Paris Climate Agreement, and other experts, will combine his inside account of the lengthily and complex Paris negotiations before discussing how the international community builds on 2015. By understanding the pitfalls and challenges of arriving at the deal, we can grasp the challenges of maintain global focus on 1.5°C.

Join this discussion to hear Mr Stern’s unique experiences behind the Paris Climate Agreement and what needs to be done going forward to contain the climate threat.

Source: Chathamhouse Events